| Major Joseph Blish Jr. |
| Generation: | 6 |
| Born: | September 9th, 1767 |
| Died: | October 14th, 1849, aged about 82 years |
| Father: | Lieutenant Joseph Blish |
| Mother: | Sarah (?) Crocker |
| Occupation(s): | --- |
| Marriages: | • Temperance (Shaw) Blish |
| Children: | Joseph Blish Dr. Charles Blish George Blish Ebenzer Blish Oakes Shaw Blish Eliza Weld (Blish) Marston Temperance Shaw Blish Hannah Blish Timothy Blish Frederick William Blish |
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Major Joseph Blish |
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1231-1808 Papal Inquisition 1478-1834 Torquemadas Spanish Inquisition 1760-1820 Reign of King George III (Hanover) 1769 San Francisco bay discovered 1770 Boston Massacre - 5 people killed when British fire on mob 1772-1775 Antarctica circumnavigated by James Cook 1772 Judge Murray decrees that slaves are free on landing in England 1773 Boston Tea Party 1774 1st Continental Congress meets 1775-1783 American Revolutionary War against the British 1775-1782 British war in India 1776 Declaration of Independence 1778 Congress forbids import of slaves into America 1778 France joins war against Britain 1780 Benjamin Franklin discovers lightning is electricity 1781 Uranus discovered 1783 1st working hot air balloon 1784 Thomas Jeffersons proposal to ban slavery defeated 1786 The Dollar is adopted 1786 First attempts at indoor lighting with gas (UK, Germany) 1787 Constitution is approved by the constitutional congress 1787 New Jersey enters the union - 3rd 1787 Pennsylvania enters the union - 2nd 1787 Delaware enters the union - 1st 1788 Maryland enters the union - 7th 1788 Massachusetts enters the union - 6th 1788 Connecticut enters the union - 5th 1788 Georgia enters the union - 4th 1788 New Hampshire enters the union - 9th 1788 Virginia enters the union - 10th 1788 New York enters the union - 11th 1788 Constitution goes into effect 1788 South Carolina enters the union - 8th 1789-1796 George Washington selected 1st President 1789 North Carolina enters the union - 12th 1789 US Army Established 1790 Rhode Island enters the union - 13th 1790 1st official US census 1790 Coast Guard Established 1791 Federal Bill of rights adopted 1791 Vermont enters the union -14th 1792-1815 Napoleonic war 1792 Denmark 1st to forbid trade in slaves 1792 Kentucky enters the union - 15th 1793 Eli Whitney invents Cotton Gin (increases need for slaves) 1793 Marie Antoinette beheaded 1794 Slavery abolished in French colonies 1794 US Navy Established 1794 US Post Office Established 1796 Tennesee enters the union - 16th 1796 Vaccination against Smallpox 1796-1800 John Adams elected 2nd president of US 1796 Frances presses get right of free speech 1798 Lithography 1798 Mississippi organized as a territory 1798 US Marine Corps Established 1798-1800 Undeclared war with France 1799 Rosetta Stone found 1800 US capital moves from Philadelphia to Washington DC 1800 1st Battery (Volta) 1800-1809 Thomas Jefferson elected president of US 1800 Russia annexes Georgia 1802 Babylonian cuniform deciphered 1803 Fulton propels vessel by steampower 1803 Louisiana Territory Purchased 1803 Ohio enters the union - 17th 1804-1806 Lewis and Clark Expedition 1804 Haiti independent - 1st black country in West. Hemis. 1805 Thomas Jefferson re-elected president of US 1805 Morphine isolated 1807 Robert Fulton makes 1st practical steamboat voyage 1808 Import of new slaves into US Is banned 1808 Pompeii excavation begins in earnest 1809-1816 James Madison elected president of US 1809 Charles Darwin born 1810 US pop. reaches 7.2 million 1810 Homeopathy founded 1812-1814 War of 1812 1812 Missouri organized as a territory 1812 Louisiana enters the union - 18th 1815 French outlaw slavery in France 1815 Battle of Waterloo 1815 Sumbawa volcano (Indonesia) erupts; 50,000 killed 1816 Photographic Negative 1816 Indiana enters the union - 19th 1816 Stethoscope 1817-1825 Erie canal constructed 1817 Alabama organized as a territory 1817 Mississippi enters the union - 20th 1817-1824 James Monroe president of US 1817 Pentrich Revolution - Englands last revolution 1817-1823 1st Cholera pandemic 1818 Jackson Purchase - Kentucky lands 1818 Savannah 1st steamship to cross the Atlantic 1818 Illinois enters the union - 21st 1819 Alabama enters the union - 22nd 1819 Oersted discovers electro-magnetism 1819 Arkansas organized as a territory 1820-1830 Reign of King George IV (Hanover) 1820 Maine enters the union - 23rd 1821-1829 Greek war of Independence 1821 Missouri enters the union - 24th 1821 US pop. reaches 9.2 million 1821 1st US womens college 1822 Florida organized as a territory 1824-1828 John Quincy Adams president of US 1824 Internal Combustion Engine 1824 Erie canal finished 1826 1st railroad tunnel (England) 1827 Ohms Law formulated 1827 1st Black newspaper Freedoms Journal 1827 Ships propeller (screw) 1828 1st railroad in the US 1828-1836 Andrew Jackson president of US 1828 1st Websters Dictionary 1829 1st US patent on a typewriter 1829-1851 2nd Cholera pandemic 1830-1837 Reign of King William IV (Hanover) 1830 Mormons (Latter Day Saints) founded 1830-1860 Underground railroad leads 100,000+ slaves to freedom in US 1832 Horse-drawn trolleys in New York 1832 Black Hawk War 1833 Telegraph 1833 Slavery abolished in British Empire (home and colonies) 1834 Modern computer conceived by Charles Babbage 1835-1842 2nd Seminole War 1835 Halleys Comet 1835 Mormon leader Joseph Smith prophesies of coming of lord by 1891 1836 Texas war for independence from Mexico 1836 Arkansas enters the union -25th 1836 Battle of the Alamo 1837 Michigan enters the union - 26th 1837-1840 Martin Van Buren president of US 1837-1901 Reign of Queen Victoria (Hanover) 1837 Depression and Panic in the US - inflation, speculation 1838-1839 Forced relocation of Cherokee 1839-1842 Opium war between China and the English 1841-1844 John Tyler president of US 1842 Chinese cede Hong Kong to the English 1844 1st telegraph line message, Washington to New York 1845 Texas enters the union - 28th 1845-1848 James K Polk president of US 1845 Florida enters the union - 27th 1845-1849 Irish Potato Famine 1846 Iowa enters the union - 29th 1846-1848 The Mexican-US War 1848 NY allows women to own real estate 1848 Oregon organized as a territory 1848 Wisconsin enters the union - 30th 1848-1856 1st gold rush in California -- Sutters Mill 1849-1852 Zachary Taylor president of the US 1849 Fizeau measures speed of light |